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As October’s autumn fruitfulness is lost in November rains, December days get shorter and we start to look towards a midwinter feast to stave off the gloom. December is not only the lead up to Christmas, but these days it is also when thousands gather for two weeks at the United Nations Climate Change conference,…

In our last blog we talked about waist circumference and its role in your health and longevity. An even simpler ‘string test’ exists to assess your visceral fat. Just get a piece of string about as long as you, then stand on one end and hold the other at the top of your head. Now…

A fifth of UK population is on a diet at any one time, yet over the last 40 years the size of us is steadily rising. The average male and female Briton now has a 38-inch and 34-inch waist respectively but they are expanding, on average, by an inch every decade. According the NHS choices…

Australian, Teaching, Travels & Dyslexia. I have half heartedly been on my way to Australia for forty years, never actually getting there… until now. Unlike Korea and Japan, which I last wrote about in my February bonus blog, Australia is a land well-known to many British people. Since 1788 people from these islands have been…